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Easter Event Over

Apr 13, 2018 | Rei

Hope everyone had fun during the Easter event. I've rolled it back to how things were before.

- 33% chance of a chest on each random character.
- 100% chance of a card during the first 15 minutes of each hour.
- Daily cap on opening chests based on your treasure hunting license. Unlimited SS Treasure Hunting Licenses are always available to supporters. If you make a donation via PayPal, or pledge on Patreon, just let me know and I'll issue you an Unlimited SS Treasure Hunting License.

Some of my work now is on optimizing the site. There are so many security checks that are done before a page is even rendered. I've been reviewing which are still needed, which are redundant, and which can be done better.

I'm also looking into developing a number lookup system. O(n) queries can be quite computationally expensive compared to O(1) queries. Sometimes good indexes can help, but in the end nothing scales as good as O(1).

On character profiles alone we have an average of over 150 queries. I'd love to optimize and simplify this.

It also frustrates me how nobody can tell me what a good layout is. Yet everyone can point out a bad layout when they see one.

I don't doubt for one second we could do better with our { character / series / edit character / edit series } layouts. I may take some stabs at changing things.

Anime by Year - Highlight by Tag

Apr 7, 2018 | Rei

A while back, I managed to use tags to highlight series in the best anime by year tool. As that was limited only to 5 series picked by each member, there ended up a lot of titles left out. So I've made a new version where you can see up to 250 titles!

Best Anime of 2018

Anime from 2018

seasons.php

Episode Transcripts

Apr 3, 2018 | Rei

It's been about a year now, and I'm still slowly working towards my goal of indexing 100,000 lines. More than half way there now!

I've updated Episode Transcripts to have a default mode of listing available episodes.

Also updated Top 100 Promoters of Mai Husbando and Top 100 Promoters of Mai Waifu! to look a bit nicer.

I've restored some features on source.php that had stopped working. Clicking the links at the top of a series page, like Reviews and Similar should now take you to the correct location on the page.

I'm a little curious if I should revive Episode Blogs. Made that feature a lot of years ago - sports a 1-5 star rating, Episode Name, Episode Number, and brief summary.

Also wondering if I should revive Episode Appearances ... my only original intention with it was to keep track of episodes characters I liked appeared in. lol Were it easy to use,. it might have a lot of potential.

Actually it's amazingly easy to use. You can literally load it up on a tablet while you watch a series, tap each character as you see them, and Post it when done.

The hard part is finding the darn thing. xD Short of URL hacking, I have no idea how anyone would use it.

Wonder what improvements tomorrow's DAILY will bring.